During the Cold War, the United States carried out terrifying classified experiments involving nuclear explosions in space, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott L. Montgomery is a geologist who writes about energy issues. Fear of radiation is a staple of the post-WWII era. Assumptions ...
That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...
Summary and Key Points: It’s remembered for one world-altering act: the B-29 Superfortress (check out our original photos ...
The previous chapters present the results of the work carried out to address the committee’s charge, including a literature review, calculations, and analysis of information presented by many experts.
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
The use of atomic bombs on Japan is often justified by the potential loss of Allied lives in a ground invasion and as retribution for Japanese war atrocities. The atomic blasts and subsequent ...
On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...